Social Security and Other Legislation Amendment (Income Support for Students) Act 2010 (17 of 2010)

Schedule 2   Scholarship payments for students

Part 2   Related amendments

Social Security (Administration) Act 1999

27   After section 47C

Insert:

47DA Student start-up scholarship payments and relocation scholarship payments

If:

(a) a person is qualified for a student start-up scholarship payment, or a relocation scholarship payment, on a particular day because the person is receiving youth allowance; and

(b) the whole or a part of the person's instalment of youth allowance in respect of a period that included that day is paid to a parent of the person under section 45 of this Act;

the Secretary may pay the whole, or the same proportion, of the person's scholarship payment to that parent or to any other person.